From: bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk Subject: First Reports, WP, 12-1-63B Date: 7 Jul 1997 08:32:23 GMT First Reports, The Washington Post, 12-1-63b This is a very long article dealing with the life and times of Oswald. I am going to post only items of notability. All emphasis is my own...............Michael Parks Start quote AS A SCHOOLBOY, OSWALD PINCHED AND BIT....BUT GROWN, HE WAS THE MODEL ROOMER Sub titled: 'Das Kapital' Was His Bible But Moscow Spurned Him And Even Castro Said No, and His 'Dishonorable' Discharge Bothered Him Even As An Expatriate In Moscow By Laurence Stern and Alfred E. Lewis "What is the case against Lee Harvey Oswald? All the police agencies with a hand in the investigation - the Justice Department, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Dallas Police Department - insist that it is an unshakable one. From the standpoint of evidence, the major points are these: * BALLISTICS TEST SHOWED that the gun that killed President Kennedy was UNMISTAKABLY THE ONE THAT OSWALD ORDERED from a Chicago mail order house last March in his own handwriting. The weapon is a bolt-operated, clip-fed, 6.5mm Italian rifle. * Oswald's wife, Marina, testified that her husband owned a similar weapon and that it was missing from the garage of her home on the morning of the assassination. WITNESSES saw him carry an elongated package to work. * Oswald's palm print was found on the box beside a barricade of cartons in the sixth floor window through which a protruding rifle barrel was seen from below. * The suspect WAS THE ONLY EMPLOYE OF THE SCHOOL BOOK BUILDING WHO WAS MISSING AT A 1:15 CHECKUP. It was at this point that Oswald WAS NAMED in a police radio lookout. * Police paraffin tests established that Oswald had fired a gun that day. GUN POWDER TRACES WERE FOUND ON BOTH HIS HANDS AND HIS FACE. * In Oswald's room police found a map of Dallas tracing the President's motorcade route, the assassination marked by an X and EVEN A LINE OUTLINED THE TRAJECTORY OF THE SHOT AT THE PRESIDENTIAL LIMOUSINE. Did Oswald know Jack Ruby, the man who murdered him in the sight of a national television audience last Sunday? SLOW MOTION REPLAYS OF THE SHOOTING SUGGEST THAT OSWALD SAW RUBY AS HE ADVANCED THROUGH THE CROWD OF NEWSMEN AND RECOGNIZED HIM. ALSO, ONE OF RUBY'S BURLESQUE HOUSE PERFORMERS CLAIMED TO HAVE SPOTTED OSWALD IN THE PLACE A WEEK PRIOR TO THE ASSASSINATION. Later he hedged on his story and said he wasn't sure it was Oswald. Also in his tiny room AT BECKLEY ST., POLICE FOUND A BIZARRE PHOTOGRAPH OF OSWALD - dressed in black - holding a rifle in one hand and two newspapers in the other, the Communist The Worker and the Trotskyist The Militant, organ of the Socialists Workers Party. THESE TWO AMERICAN MARXIST PUBLICATIONS ARE SAVAGELY CRITICAL OF ONE ANOTHER. Alexander said he noticed on the flyleaf of the address book a hand-drawn map of Red Square. "How did you identify it as Red Square?" he was asked. "IT JUST LOOKED LIKE IT," Alexander replied. A French correspondent reported the FBI seized an amateur photographer's movie film showing SILHOUETTES OF TWO MEN IN THE SNIPER'S WINDOW. HE ALSO SAID AN ANALYSIS OF THE LEFTOVER CHICKEN SHOWED THAT IT HAD BEEN IN THE ROOM OVERNIGHT. Oddly, Oswald's Marine Corps marksmanship records was ONLY AVERAGE. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT HE PRACTICED SHOOTING. EARLY LAST MONTH, HOWEVER, OSWALD HAD A DALLAS GUNSMITH MOUNT TELESCOPIC SIGHTS ON HIS ITALIAN CARBINE. FBI DENIAL HOW DID OSWALD FINANCE A TRIP TO MEXICO CITY IN LATE SEPTEMBER? WHO PROVIDED THE CAR THAT DROVE HIM THERE? These questions are being INTENSIVELY investigated by the FBI. The answers are NOT YET APPARENT. When Oswald was arrested on Friday after the assassination he had only $13 with him. His job paid only $1.25 an hour. A report that Oswald received telegraphed money in $10 to $20 denominations has been denied by Western Union officials. The story of the wired money was published in a Dallas newspaper yesterday. FBI spokesmen ISSUED THEIR STANDARD "NO COMMENT" ON THE DEVELOPMENT. FBI SOURCES HAVE DENIED THAT THEY HAD SPOKEN TO OSWALD IN DALLAS AND SAID THEY DID NOT HAVE HIM UNDER ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE AT THE TIME. HOWEVER, THESE REPORTERS OVERHEARD AN FBI AGENT CAUTION ONE ACQUAINTANCE OF OSWALD'S NOT TO DISCUSS FBI CONTACTS WITH THE ASSASSINATION SUSPECT. EVEN WITH ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF OSWALD'S PRESENCE IN DALLAS, THOSE WHO KNOW HIM INSIST, NOTHING IN HIS BEHAVIOR SUGGESTED THAT HE WAS CAPABLE OF MURDER. FBI AGENTS ARE REPORTEDLY LOOKING INTO ALLEGATIONS THAT FOLLOWING OSWALD'S DISCHARGE FROM THE MARINES HE ASSOCIATED WITH A YOUNG RIGHT WING EXTREMIST FROM MISSISSIPPI IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK'S BOHEMIAN DISTRICT. THE PAIR, ACCORDING TO NEW YORK PRESS ACCOUNTS, WERE REPORTED TO HAVE MADE A HABIT OF CREATING DISTURBANCES AT LIBERAL POLITICAL MEETINGS. THIS NEW ASPECT OF OSWALD'S TANGLED BACKGROUND ORIGINATED WITH AN INFORMANT WHO HAD GONE TO THE NEW YORK NEWSPAPER AND RADIO STATIONS ON THE DAY OF THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION, CLAIMING THAT HE SERVED IN THE MARINES WITH THE TWO OTHER MEN. OSWALD, ACCORDING TO THE INFORMANT'S ACCOUNT, PHOTOGRAPHED DISTURBANCES CREATED AT THE LIBERAL GATHERINGS AND FURNISHED THEM TO A RIGHT WING PUBLICATION. THE FBI DECLINED TO CONFIRM OR DENY THE REPORT. On Sept. 23, the Paines' blue station wagon was noticed by neighbors pulling up to the Oswald home in New Orleans. Marina and her daughter departed in the car. OSWALD THEN DISAPPEARED ON A MYSTERIOUS MISSION, LEAVING 15 DAYS' RENT UNPAID. SEPT. 26 WAS A DAY OF MORE THAN ROUTINE SIGNIFICANCE IN OSWALD'S LIFE. HE CROSSED THE MEXICAN BORDER IN AN AUTOMOBILE ON HIS WAY TO MEXICO CITY. AND, IN DALLAS, THE NEWS OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S IMPENDING VISIT WAS MADE PUBLIC. DETAILS ON THE MEXICAN TRIP ARE FRAGMENTARY. IT IS EQUALLY UNCLEAR WHY OSWALD, WHO TRIED TO GET OUT OF THE SOVIET UNION FOR MORE THAN TWO OF THE THREE YEARS HE WAS THERE, SHOULD NOW WANT TO RETURN. End quote Over a week after the assassination and still Oswald went to Mexico City via automobile. Strange that. MP